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Farmers wearing Shibu Soren masks protest RIMS-2 project

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August 25, 2025

Jharkhand police on Sunday resorted to light force and tear gas shells to disperse the farmers protesting against the construction of Ranjendra Institute of Medical Sciences-2 (RIMS-2) on agricultural land, wearing masks of 'Dishom Guru' Shibu Soren.

- MUKESH RANJAN @ Ranchi

Despite heavy police deployment, the protesting farmers, most of them tribal men and women, wearing the mask of Shibu Soren, reached the proposed site of RIMS-2 through the footpaths of the fields and ensured ploughing and planted saplings as per the pre-determined 'Hal Joto-Ropa Ropo' programme.

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